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Athenia Survivors from Knute Nelson landed at Galway

WHO’S  SORRY  NOW? by Liam Nolan

New book on Athenia by Cay Rademacher

TSS Letitia, sister ship to ill fated Athenia, had a checkered career

Margaret and Elizabeth Orr both survived the sinking of RMS Athenia on Sunday the 3rd. of September 1939. Margo Farnworth's artifacts from her Mother and Grand Mother

Athenia Manuscript authored by Judith Evelyn

Judith's Manuscript ( tied up with ribbon ) covered her sailing, being sunk, and rescued from the liner Athenia, in the first casualty of the WW2 U-Boat war in the Atlantic. The ship was sunk by U-30 on Sunday the 3rd.of September 1939 the very first day that WW2 had been declared.

93 passengers and 19 crew members died.

The Athenia Remembered: September 3, 1939-September 3, 2004 by Michael Poirier

Survivors from Athenia picked up by the City of Flint, to be transported to Halifax

The British Convoy System in Two World Wars, and winning the Battle of the Atlantic

Hitler on 9 October, 1939, made this comment, "Used ruthlessly, the Submarine, can today, be an extraordinary threat to Britain."

Churchill said, " Battles might be won or lost, enterprises succeed or miscarry, Territories might be gained or quitted, but, dominating all our power to carry on the war, or even keep ourselves alive, was our mastery of the ocean routes, and free approach and entry to our ports. The only thing that ever frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril."

SS Athenia, First Casualty of the U-Boat War on the 3rd. of September 1939

Correspondence - David G Vowles and Anne Vowles were survivors of the Athenia

Correspondence - Robert Goodall travelled to Canada in the Athenia, Donaldson Brothers Ltd.circa 1880?

Correspondence - Was Mary Rushton a passenger on Athenia?

Correspondence - Hannah Baird. Voici un article publié dans le Québec Hebdo.

Correspondence - New book: Athenia Torpedoed

Correspondence - Hannah Baird, first Canadian casulaty of WW II

Correspondence - Margaret Florence Heap, Athenia survivor transported to Canada on the City of Flint?

Correspondence - Hannah Baird Information/Sinking of the Athenia

Correspondence - Mary (Fraser) Donald, Heather (Donald) Watts survived sinking of Athenia

Correspondence - Wilhemina Greer and Sylvia ( Greer ) Love survived sinking for Athenia

Correspondence - Athenia menus

Correspondence - "Ruth" Letter; Athenia Survivor

Correspondence - Rhoda Thomas survived sinking of the Athenian and left our family with a detailed account

Correspondence - Either Hazel or May Toon survived the sinking of Ahenia

Correspondence - Athenia Survivor: Mrs. Kate Williams of Victoria, BC - deceased

Correspondence - Story on Barbara Wilson's Athenian ordeal

Correspondence - Barbara Rodman Wilson, Athenia survivor

Correspondence - Peter McLaughlin Simpson was a cook in the SS Athenia, pre 1939

Correspondence - Peter Birchall was amongst those 93 passengers who died when Athenia sank

Correspondence - Photo of the Athenia

Correspondence - Request for Official (newspaper source) of Athenia Survivors?

Correspondence - Leonard Robert Sykes, Walda Katrina Sykes, Shirley Margaret Sykes, survived sinking of Athenia

Correspondence - Maria (or Mary) Dick (nee Webster) survived sinking of Athenia

Correspondence - Survivor of Athenia

Correspondence - Mrs. Hannah Baird lost in Athenia sinking

Correspondence - Harriet Barrington killed on the Athenia

Correspondence - Joan Hecht Lorber, SS Athenia survivor, R.I.P

Correspondence - Bernice Jansen, missionary on Athenia

Correspondence - Martha Goddard, Athenia

Correspondence - Ada May Waterman, was aboard Athenia when it was torpedoed in 1939. She survived.

Correspondence - Tankard presented to people who went to Athenia's rescue

Correspondence - George Mcewan survivied sinking of Athenia

Correspondence - Agnes McFarlane who we believe was killed with her daughter Gladys on the Athenia

Correspondence - Athenia passengers: George Bihun (age 16),William Bihun (age 14),Walter Bihun (age 12)

Correspondence - Lona Marie (nee Attfield) Manning survived sinking of Athenia

Correspondence - Original Marconi grams that I have concerning the sinking of the SS Athenia

Correspondence - Albert Augustus Wolff in Athenia 1, sunk by German U-Boat, U-53 on August 16 in 1917

Correspondence - Peter Nelson Bekusch and John Nelson Bekusch survived sinking of Athenia

Correspondence - Barbara Bailey, Athenia survivor

Correspondence - Isabel MacDonald (nee Barr) and Ronald Hugh Livingston MacDonald survived the sinking Athenia

Correspondence - Manifest for the passengers that boarded the S.S. Athenia in 1939?

Correspondence - Survivors of the Athenia

Correspondence - Willie Jenkins survived sinking of Athenia

Correspondence - Story of the Athenia, its victims and survivors, could work well as a documentary

Correspondence - David Murray from Glasgow was the Captains steward on Athenia on that eventful night in 1939

Correspondence - Linda Dalton survived sinking of Athenia

Correspondence - Frank Watson served on H.M.S. Escort, picked up survivors from S.S. Athenia

Correspondence - Margaret Ray Hodge and Jocelyn M. Hodge survivied the sinking of Athenia

Correspondence - SS Athenia Glasgow Museums update, pictures and keys which came from Athenia's silver room

Correspondence - Gerald Hutchinson, oldest living survivor of SS Athenia?

Correspondence - James A. Goodson survived sinking of Athenia

Correspondence - Athenia Research, Museum of Transport, Glasgow

Correspondence - George Sneddon lost on Athenia?

Correspondence - Elizabeth and Margaret Orr, survivors of Athenia

Correspondence - Berta Rapp, Osias Rapp were survivors of the sinking of the Athenia

Correspondence - Two ships named Athenia

Correspondence - Alice Apers, Florence Arthur and cousin Laura Apers survived the sinking of Athenia

Correspondence - Glasgow Museum of Transport; exhibition of Athenia, contacting survivors

Correspondence - Florrie Treharne, survive the sinking of the Athenia in 1939?

Correspondence - Survivor finds plaque memorializing Helen Burrows who died in the sinking of Athenia

Correspondence - Margaret Ellen Taylor survived sinking of Athenia - which ship picked her up?

Correspondence - Edward Belton survived the sinking of Athenia

Correspondence - Elwood & Alma MacPherson, survived the sinking of the Athenia

Correspondence - Bernice Jansen, passenger on the Athenia

Correspondence - Think my granddad sailed the boat which saved survivors of the Athenia

Correspondence - My father's aunts perished on Athenia

Correspondence - John & Nigel McKinnon were members of the crew of SS Athenia when it was sunk in 1939

Correspondence - Athenia passenger list 1927?

Correspondence - Julia Wotten Scott, survivor on the Athenia at time of sinking

Correspondence - Martha Goddard died on the Athenia in Sept 1939

Correspondence - Father sailed as 2nd Officer on SS Eastlea, sunk by U-48

Correspondence - Find crew / staff lists for SS Athenia? Agnes MacFarlane worked as a Stewardess